hard and soft lockups.
Softlockups are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
- mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
+ mode for more than 20 seconds, without giving other tasks a
chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon
detection and the system will stay locked up.
Hardlockups are bugs that cause the CPU to loop in kernel mode
- for more than 60 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
+ for more than 10 seconds, without letting other interrupts have a
chance to run. The current stack trace is displayed upon detection
and the system will stay locked up.
The overhead should be minimal. A periodic hrtimer runs to
- generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 10-12 seconds.
- An NMI is generated every 60 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
+ generate interrupts and kick the watchdog task every 4 seconds.
+ An NMI is generated every 10 seconds or so to check for hardlockups.
+
+ The frequency of hrtimer and NMI events and the soft and hard lockup
+ thresholds can be controlled through the sysctl watchdog_thresh.
config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
def_bool LOCKUP_DETECTOR && PERF_EVENTS && HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI && \
- !ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
+ !HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG
config BOOTPARAM_HARDLOCKUP_PANIC
bool "Panic (Reboot) On Hard Lockups"
help
Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "hard lockups",
which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
- mode with interrupts disabled for more than 60 seconds.
+ mode with interrupts disabled for more than 10 seconds (configurable
+ using the watchdog_thresh sysctl).
Say N if unsure.
help
Say Y here to enable the kernel to panic on "soft lockups",
which are bugs that cause the kernel to loop in kernel
- mode for more than 60 seconds, without giving other tasks a
- chance to run.
+ mode for more than 20 seconds (configurable using the watchdog_thresh
+ sysctl), without giving other tasks a chance to run.
The panic can be used in combination with panic_timeout,
to cause the system to reboot automatically after a
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ select UNINLINE_SPIN_UNLOCK
help
Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
and certain other kinds of spinlock errors commonly made. This is
larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information
in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings)
+config UNWIND_INFO
+ bool "Compile the kernel with frame unwind information"
+ depends on !IA64 && !PARISC && !ARM
+ depends on !MODULES || !(MIPS || PPC || SUPERH || V850)
+ help
+ If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger
+ but not slower, and it will give very useful debugging information.
+ If you don't debug the kernel, you can say N, but we may not be able
+ to solve problems without frame unwind information or frame pointers.
+
+config STACK_UNWIND
+ bool "Stack unwind support"
+ depends on UNWIND_INFO
+ depends on X86
+ help
+ This enables more precise stack traces, omitting all unrelated
+ occurrences of pointers into kernel code from the dump.
+
config BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY
bool "Delay each boot printk message by N milliseconds"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PRINTK && GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
Say Y if you want to enable such checks.
+config RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
+ bool "Print additional diagnostics on RCU CPU stall"
+ depends on (TREE_RCU || TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) && DEBUG_KERNEL
+ default n
+ help
+ For each stalled CPU that is aware of the current RCU grace
+ period, print out additional per-CPU diagnostic information
+ regarding scheduling-clock ticks, idle state, and,
+ for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, idle-entry state.
+
+ Say N if you are unsure.
+
+ Say Y if you want to enable such diagnostics.
+
+config RCU_TRACE
+ bool "Enable tracing for RCU"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ This option provides tracing in RCU which presents stats
+ in debugfs for debugging RCU implementation.
+
+ Say Y here if you want to enable RCU tracing
+ Say N if you are unsure.
+
config KPROBES_SANITY_TEST
bool "Kprobes sanity tests"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
depends on !X86_64
select STACKTRACE
- select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
+ select FRAME_POINTER if !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !X86 && !ARM_UNWIND
+ select UNWIND_INFO if X86 && !FRAME_POINTER
help
Provide stacktrace filter for fault-injection capabilities
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
depends on PROC_FS
- select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !ARM_UNWIND
+ select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE && !X86 && !ARM_UNWIND
+ select UNWIND_INFO if X86 && !FRAME_POINTER
select KALLSYMS
select KALLSYMS_ALL
select STACKTRACE
Enable this option if you want to use the LatencyTOP tool
to find out which userspace is blocking on what kernel operations.
-config SYSCTL_SYSCALL_CHECK
- bool "Sysctl checks"
- depends on SYSCTL
- ---help---
- sys_sysctl uses binary paths that have been found challenging
- to properly maintain and use. This enables checks that help
- you to keep things correct.
-
source mm/Kconfig.debug
source kernel/trace/Kconfig
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